What a terrific night that was! The place was *rammed*, the atmosphere brilliant and the light show was stupendous!

Nipsla and I were DJing the after show party at JAMM, which turned out to to be truly epic. But the hangover today. oh dear.me 'ead!

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Thursday's Offline Club at Brixton was one of the best for a long time. We had a great line up with the incredible MORTON VALENCE, a massed throng of ukes with the DULWICH UKULELE CLUB, fast-rising hip-hop with LADY LYKEZ and the floor filling skiffle delights of THE SEVERED LIMB - plus underground no-budget independent film screenings with FLIXATION.

Here's a few pics

And this is why we do it!

More photos here. Next Offline is at the Brixton Albert on November 20th.

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We had a fantastic Halloween special at the Albert Offline Club last night with some great bands, dancing go go girls and much drinking.

Here's a few pics.

Loads more pics here: Offline Halloween Special

Next Offline show is at the Dogstar, Brixton on Thurs 12th November and we've got an amazing bill!

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We had another big night at the Prince Albert in Brixton last night with the Trans Siberian March Band plus the Wookies playing our free Offline club night.

More pics - and details of our amazing Halloween show on the 31st - here: Offline Brixton

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A few photos from our last lively night at the Dogstar, Brixton, with live bands, indie films, a Woody Guthrie lecture, poetry and DJs.

We've got some absolute killer bills coming up on the 23rd and 31st October so check out our club homepage for more info.  They're always FREE too!

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She was absolutely fabulous!









One of my fave Offline gigs this year!

More pics here.

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Both these bands put on fantastic shows at the Albert last Friday night at Offline.

Here's a few photos:

More pics here: The Johnsons and Autoban at Offline

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Some pics from a great Offline night on Friday night at the Albert in Brixton.

Sweet Baboo, The Spivs and Bearcraft at Offline

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Just got back from a fantastic weekend at the Endorse It Festival. In Dorset. See what they did there?

Dreadful puns aside, the festival was an absolute treat. The weather was perfect, the cider flowed plentifully and there were loads of chums about to ensure that it remains my favourite festival of the year.

Here's a few photos. More to come later.
 



 
Our well populated swimming pool!

 
Zion Train onstage.

 
A curious bout of medieval dancing broke out during my ska set.

 
Monday morning. We bid the festival goodbye for another year!

Last year's Endorse It photos: Endorse It photo feature

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Some photos from Jessica's fantastic set at the Brixton Offline Club on Friday.

More photos: Jessica Delfino at the Albert

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I've just posted up some photos from John Hegley's amazing gig at the Albert last week. It was a true privilege putting him on!

 

More photos: John Hegley at Offline, Brixton

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Fabulous gig in the Brixton Price Albert last night with the incredible John Hegley and Jessica Delfini playing live, plus the Actionettes on the DJ decks.

Jessica's back next Friday with festival legend, Beans on Toast.

More details: Offline Club

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After a great day drinking Chucklehead cider at the Lambeth Country Show (photo report coming soon), I was definitely in the mood for the rivet-removing full-on rockandroll of Atomic Suplex.

And they kicked ass in industrial quantities, entertaining one of the most bonkers crowds seen at Offline for quite a while.
 











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We were delighted to put on the mighty Juke Baritone in the Albert on Friday and the boys put on a great show. Check out some photos:











More photos here

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When we heard that a venue had cancelled the farewell gig for our friends The Shanners, we quickly assembled the Offline Pronto Gig Relocation crew, and found them a new home at the Dogstar for their last ever show. And it was ruddy great too!

More photos: Offline, Dogstar 25th JUne

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Photos from last night's ace Offline gig with Toronto all-girl punksters the Machetes and east Landahn garage rockers The Spivs online here.

RAWK AND RAWWWL!

More here: offlineclub.com

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Shaking off the disappointment of Ella Edmondson cancelling at the least minute through illness, we had a great night at the Brixton Albert, with the excellent Sergeant Buzfuz putting in a great performance.

Here's a few pics from the night:

More pics here: Offline Club

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Just got chance to post up some pics from last week's Offline bash at the Dogstar with Josie Long, Voodoo Trombone Quartet, Atomic Suplex, Anchorsong and Vic Lambrusco's Cabaret Hour - plus Craft Corner.

It's great to see Offline back in its old home and pulling good crowds, but it was so hectic I didn't get chance to take many pics.

Here's a few from the night:

More: http://www.urban75.org/offline/offline59_dogstar.html

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Fuck, they were good tonight - and the crowd were up for it too!

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It's been a long weekend of partying with four great acts playing the Offline Albert gigs.

On Friday we had superb Kitchener and our favourite hip-hop act - Lady Lykez. She's lively, funny and talented and definitely one to watch.

More photos here

On Saturday, we put on the hilarious Mr B, The Gentleman Rhymer who mixed up chappage with hip hop, followed by John Peel faves I, Ludicrous.

There's not so many photos for this night as I'd suffered some hideous flu-like ailment overnight. It was so bad I had to run off during the soundcheck for a Mr Creosote-style chunder (without the need for a wafer thin mint). Eeeugh.

Happily, the excellent entertainment took my mind off things before I headed home early to bed.

More pics here

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Here's a few snaps from Friday's Offline  Club at the Brixton Albert with Sanjuro and Sergeant Buzfuz. Both bands were *fab!*

The dulcimer sounded amazing!

More pics: Offline Club, Brixton

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I've just posted up a load of photos from the fantastic Offline party at the Brixton Dogstar on the 9th April. It was one of the biggest nights I've put on for a long time!

More photos here

Don't forget - the next party is on Friday 24th April at the Brixton Albert!

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Ruddy hell, that was a busy one! The Brixton Dogstar was rammed to capacity for the return of the Offline club night on Thursday.

We were running three rooms on two floors, with live acts in all three and at times it was so busy getting from room to room was quite a challenge.

The bill was one of the best I've ever put on, with some great live acts, poets, bands, drummers and dancers. Here's the Actionettes doing their hip shaking stuff.

The fabulous Barking Bateria put in another thunderous set in the packed upstairs Ballroom.

The night's success had been helped by quite a bit of press in the week before. Time Out ran an interview with yours truly (they'd asked for an 'action' DJ shot, but I explained that seeing as DJing usually involved me messing about and having a beer, they may as well use this one):

The South London Press also ran a good feature on the night:

I'm off to the football now (come on Cardiff!), but I'll post up more photos from the club night tomorrow.

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Last week we went to the Soho Theatre to see Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness - and loved every minute of it.

A bit like Ripping Yarns meets the Mighty Boosh meets The League of Gentlemen, the show is set as a Victorian travelling sideshow, with Mr Gant recalling fantastic tales from his travels.

Here's how the press blurb describes the show: 

In 1881, one of the Victorian theatres most enigmatic impresarios, Mr Edward Gant, presented his famed travelling show for the very last time. In 2009, Anthony Neilson and Headlong Theatre are proud to present a reconstruction of this historic and extraordinary evening of mystery and magic, spectacle and strangeness. Behold . . . The Amazing Feats Of Loneliness!

Anthony Neilson is one of Britain's most acclaimed playwrights, creating pioneering, taboo-breaking new work in a bold and compassionate way. Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness is a beautiful and very funny exploration of performance and performers, of sadness, mortality and wonder.

It's a wonderful, funny and entertaining show with quite a dark twist at the end - if Victorian melodrama is your thing, get down to the Soho Theatre before the run ends!

Jonathan Richman at the Borderline

Last Tuesday, I was lucky enough to be offered a ticket for Jonathan Richman at the small west end venue of the Borderline (thanks ianw!).

Once again he put in a superb show, stuffed full of wit, humour and youthful enthusiasm - it really is hard to believe that he was born just six years after the end of World War 2!

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I've been holed up in bed with the stinkiest of colds ever since, but Friday night's double celebration of my own birthday and the club's 5th birthday was a heap of fun.

Here's some pics. Don't forget the HUGE party we've got going on at the Dogstar this Thursday!

More photos here: Offline Apr 3rd 2009

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Some more pics from the night. In an Offline first, both bands featured tuba players - and we've got another tuba player lined up for my birthday bash on April 3rd! Parp-tastic!

More pics here

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I'm still beastly hungover from last night's immense Offline show - both bands were absolutely fantastic and the place was heaving again.

The crowd was, as ever, well up for a good time. Here's a few pics from the night - more coming soon!

We've got some great Offline nights coming up - April 3rd is both Offline's 5th birthday party and my own (slightly bigger) birthday, so we're putting on something really special at the Albert.

The week after we're celebrating our return to the Dogstar in Brixton with perhaps the biggest bill we've put on for years. Both events are free - see more details here: Offline Club

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Offline faves and cheeky scampsters Milk Kan have just released their new video, with some of the footage shot at their excellent Offline gig a few weeks ago.

Nice one lads!

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Our first Offline of the year saw us pull a huge crowd into the Albert for a fantastic free party. Here's a few photos of the madness!

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Happy New Year to my handful of readers!

We had a ball last night at the Offline NYE party with two great bands, loads of beers and some fabulously drunk DJing. Here's a few photos:









And my favourite...




:)

More photos here.

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Some photos from Friday's lively Offline night at the Albert in Brixton.

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We had a terrific night of fun at Offline at JAMM on Thursday. The bill was, shall we say, very eclectic!

Susie Showers with tambourinin' nun.


Kinzli sang beautiful, delicate songs about love, loss and - err - a shooting on her Stoke Newington street.


A Craft Corner creation.


The eight-strong Apples for Everyone bring their cheery brand of onstage mayhem to Brixton.




The incredible sampling-whizz Anchorsong.


Headliners Star27 were *ace*!

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Next Offline is at the Albert on the 19th July. Come along!

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Last night's Offline was one of the best with a great mix of acts and the welcome return of ace comedian, Richard Herring.



Also on the bill was the hilarious MATTHEW DEVEREAUX, the roof-removing thunder of ATOMIC SUPLEX, the melodramatic brilliance of THE BRIDPORT DAGGER and my personal favourites, AMYCANBE, who played a set of seductive indie-folk goodness.

More photos

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